Mexico v Ireland - 1st June - Match Thread

deise316 wrote: Bizarre team selection more than anything cost us, though lets face it, Mexico would likely have won anyway. O'Kane & Gleeson, as actual centre midfielders, should have started alongside Hourihane instead of 2 wingers, it still would have left us with 2 wing backs & 2 centre forwards, which is about 2 more attackers than Trap used to play.  As well as being overrun in midfield, it left the defence horribly exposed, all 3 had poor games, maybe you can excuse Duffy as he hasn't played in so long, but Keogh is a fella who has difficulty with small, fast forwards at the best of times, with no protection from midfield you realise how vulnerable he is.  The 2 defenders to come out of last night's shambles with the biggest chance of playing V Austria were JOS & Ward. Can't judge Horgan or O'Dowda on last night either, both on the back foot all game, positionally poor, but wouldn't really expect much else from 2 lads with few caps and playing in an alien position. Wouldn't be too worried about it, like others have said, it was a team picked to lose, we can't be surprised that they did just that.

Trap played 2 attackers in every game and was hounded in the media and on here for it as the popular stick to beat him with at the time was we should be playing 4-5-1.  So I don't know why you say O'Neill played 2 more attackers than Trap when more often than not he plays less attackers than Trap.

pre Madonna wrote: Trap junior wrote: O'Neill and Keane in Oriel tonight.  Slightly different standard of stadium to last night Different standard of Irish striker as well............

They're looking at Maguire no doubt or maybe they heard the Oriel bar is class and are up for a few scoops.


RTE saying Cork are Roy's team.  Not so. R.Keane did a judas Mo Johnstone move by actually signing for City but then signing for Cobh aswell! Ramblers got the papers in first and he was their player.

Roy is a Cork City Judas

The O'Shea wrote: Maccatacca wrote: irelandfan wrote: Just a thought not one Dublin born player started the game last night and only two came off the bench can never remember this happening surely a first?  Darren Randolph would have been born in Dublin.  I suppose when people say "born" they really mean "grew up". The more pertinent question would be whether Randolph is from the Wicklow or Dublin side of Bray

O'Neill and Keane in Oriel tonight.  Slightly different standard of stadium to last night

Lenny82 wrote: This was far from the worst Irish performance I have ever seen. The only negatives I took from it was Duffy's performance, but as pointed out, he's been injured since March. We were all over them until they scored the 1st on the counter. McClean gave away a stupid penalty, and we were just beaten by a technically superior team. We created more chances last night than we did in the Wales and Iceland match combined. O'Dowda should have done better with his chance, Hourihane and McClean had a decent effort, and Murphy should have scored that header. The positives far outweigh the negatives last night for me.

pre Madonna wrote: Does it f**king matter? I am not exactly known for my tolerance of Dubs and I couldn't give a sh*te.

Does it f**king matter? I am not exactly known for my tolerance of Dubs and I couldn't give a sh*te.

irelandfan wrote: Just a thought not one Dublin born player started the game last night and only two came off the bench can never remember this happening surely a first?

This was far from the worst Irish performance I have ever seen. The only negatives I took from it was Duffy's performance, but as pointed out, he's been injured since March.

We were all over them until they scored the 1st on the counter. McClean gave away a stupid penalty, and we were just beaten by a technically superior team. We created more chances last night than we did in the Wales and Iceland match combined. O'Dowda should have done better with his chance, Hourihane and McClean had a decent effort, and Murphy should have scored that header.

The positives far outweigh the negatives last night for me.